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    Does More Money Make Us Happier?

    One question for Matt Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The post Does More Money Make Us Happier? appeared first on Nautilus.
    by Brian Gallagher Mar 13, 2023 2 minutes

    One question for Matt Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the creator of www.trackyourhappiness.org, a global research project that uses smartphones to study happiness in real-time during everyday life.

    Photo courtesy of Matt Killingsworth

    Does more money make us happier?

    On average, happiness just keeps rising with income. In our new , we have pretty good data up to around $500,000 a year. And

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